Recent developments around football, especially in Europe, reveal that FIFA may only be play-acting and paying lip service to the issue of racism in football. The body responsible for football in the world, a sport that has tamed bridged human...
Television, NTA and Sports – the tragedy and the lessons from Uyo!
Congratulations Super Eagles for winning last Wednesday. An emerging mixture of old and new-look Super Eagles, a team of young players largely harvested from the wombs of European clubs, comes to Nigeria, led by their holidaying coach, to take on the Squirrels...
A peep into the belly of the League Management Company, LMC.
I found out a long time ago that some stakeholders in Nigerian football are very sensitive, emotional and protective of the body called the League Management Company, LMC. They do not like the organization to be a subject of discussion...
Best Ogedegbe and Ibadan, the graveyard of forgotten football heroes!
I shall be in Ibadan next week. Why should that be news? Well, it really should not be, but it is. Going to Ibadan, for me, has become a burden of some sort. For what I did in Ibadan, for...
Remembering Gangling Rashidi Yekini.
Had I known that he shared the same birthday as one of the greatest football players in the history of the game, I would not have been wondering for years about where Rashidi got his prodigious goal-scoring ability from. How...
The King of Nigerian Schools’ football – a tribute to St. Murumba College!
Which secondary school has produced the highest number of players for the Green/Super Eagles in Nigeria’s history? This is a Million-Dollar poser that I have been trying to solve in the past 48 hours. The process has been an experience I must...
My class constituted all of the school’s first XI football team!
This is fŕom 1967 or 1968. St. Murumba College, Jos. My class constituted all of the school's first XI football team. How did that happen?
Nigerian Football – the shame of a Nation!
I am tired of the endless lamentation. I would not have touched the subject again had Osasu Obayiuwana not called me up from his holiday in California, two days ago, to rant and rave about the state of Nigerian football...
Euro 2020 qualifying series.
Hello Mathematical7.com readers, The second international windows break is here and our focus will switch from European club action to European Championship (Euro 2020) qualifying series.
My work is my passion!
My work is my passion. It has always revolved around what I have done, and enjoy doing, most of my life - sport. I have just left an event in Lagos that excites me to no end. It is a...
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